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It only has SATA2 or 3GBs ports on it and uses the Intel NM10 chipset. This is a simple little ITX server running an Asus AT5NM10-I motherboard.

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I recently purchased 3 x Corsair Force Series 3 60GB drives for them. I am a heavy IT enthusiast and do a lot of development work.

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Romex offers a 3-PC license for approximately 2x the single-seat version, and I still have 70 days to 'think about it.' So far, it looks as though I could use the more expensive license version.īut there are obviously limits to resurrecting old technology, and every increment of improvement costs more.I am hoping for a little bit of help here and hopefully to stop pulling my hair out.

As a 'new toy' to play with, it is an antidote for the temptation to spend $1,000 on a new laptop with current-gen processor, controller and 8GB of RAM. Howsoever my observations or perceptions are inaccurate, partial imagination or profoundly real, this is about as good as it gets for a surplus laptop I bought for $250 which once retailed for $2,200. So the only benefit I can get with 8GB of SO-DIMM derives from use of a caching program. I'll leave off here to observe that the lappie was a relative slug with only 2GB of SO-DIMM, and no matter what I do with the currently loaded software, it seems unlikely that I would use 4GB after opening a whole pile of programs. I MIGHT try it with the old desktop I mentioned. I'm pretty sure I can't fit two 2.5' drives (SSD and HDD) in the laptop I couldn't find a second SATA+power plug inside the lappie. PrimoCache has this 'L2' feature such that you could use a cheap <=60GB SSD for a persistent cache of an HDD. But I'm not the only 'cat' in these forums - I'm sure!ĪFTERTHOUGHT: As rule of thumb, I'm adverse to adding 'complexity' to my systems - more so now than in the past. If I could keep my curiosity from influencing my purchasing habits, I suppose I could save more money. I suppose the real issue boils down to the meaning attached to the benchmark results.Īs for the laptop 'investment,' I can always replace the SSD with the WD 'blue' HDD, so it is less a case of frivolous spending than a possible suboptimal use of parts.

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With caching, and regardless which caching program is used, performance and responsiveness for mainstream desktop software is again improved - less noticeably than the simple comparison of benchmark results, even so. But it is less than half the performance one would expect under SATA-III. Without caching, the laptop with SSD still offers significantly better performance than with the WD 2.5' HDD which came with it two months ago. This might not restrict the performance of an SATA-III HDD, but most certainly affects the performance of an SATA-III SSD.

The problem with both the laptop and the desktop system (another C2D configuration) - they both use controllers that meet the SATA-II standard with AHCI.

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So far, I haven't spent a dime on a caching program - especially owing to the extended trial period on PrimoCache. In the case of this old laptop, I wanted to see how I could make it 'responsive' and serviceable. SuperSpeed only gives you 14 days.Ĭlick to expand.Perhaps all enthusiast experiments are best preceded by the most detailed rational calculation. And the free trial period from Romex is almost outrageous: you can test the software for 90 days before paying for it. Primo allows for write-caching on a boot drive, while SuperCache doesn't. Primo-Cache shows much better bench results.

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Both allow for setting the cache-size to any number (although Primo's drop-down menu only presents 512MB and 1GB increment options for the lazy mouse-click).įor the price of one PC license from SuperSpeed, you get a 3-PC license from Romex. As much as I'd like to favor SuperSpeed's SuperCache because their HQ is in Massaschusetts, and they are MS Certified Partner - I have to recommend Primo-Cache from Romex Software (Shanghai).īoth programs deploy block-level caching.

Now I've done a web-search, discovering that HDD 4K bench results with an SATA-III controller aren't much better.Īs for the programs, I mentioned my observations in another thread.

I was stunned to find the 4K results with 'caching' at well below a MB/s. So one might also have optimistic expectations for a simple WD Blue HDD on an Intel SATA-II controller. With a cache using 3GB of RAM, the score increases to around 150. Typically, the SSD (without caching) would show 4K read results in the 30 to 50 MB/s range. Since the SSD isn't Samsung, I wanted to get an idea of how the lappie would be 'snappy' using a RAM-cache program. The controller, of course, was SATA-II and AHCI-compliant. I refurbed an old laptop (C2D T8300) with 8GB of RAM and (tentatively) a Crucial MX100 SSD.

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